Amazon brings Alexa's Follow-Up Mode to Fire TV Cube

Amazon’s Fire TV Cube is rolling out a couple new software updates today that’ll fine-tune the experience of using Alexa. The updates enable Alexa multi-room music and follow-up mode, and come at the heels of last week’s news of Alexa Announcements coming to the Fire TV Cube.
To use multi-room music, you can add the Fire TV Cube to the appropriate speaker group in the Alexa App, which includes your HDMI-connected TV, soundbar, or AV system alongside your other compatible devices like your Echo Show and Echo Dot. You can then ask Alexa to play music in that group with commands like, “Alexa, play my dinner party playlist downstairs”, and it’ll play music through supported platforms like Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio.
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Fire TV Cube owners can now use their media streaming device to broadcast announcements around the home, similar to a one-way intercom. Amazon says it&#8217;s launching a feature called &#8220;Alexa ...